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No Questions Asked When Its Good News for Women

The New York Times’s Cornelia Dean wrote an article published June 2nd, Women Are Seen Bridging Gap in Science Opportunities, that highlights the findings that women scientists and engineers are making gains in academia and that the gap between boys’ and girls’ performance in mathematics has been almost eliminated. It’s certainly appropriate to applaud signs of women’s progress, but this article mistakenly accepts the presumption that absent discrimination and other nefarious factors women and men would be equally represented in these fields and excludes any discussion of the problems facing men in universities.

For example, she writes:

Although

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